The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-12
THE GOSSIP OF THE TOWN.
TRIPLES CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY
TEE NEWS'S REPORTERS.

BrleMetS mat Will Interest Every DOuys
President E. F. @. Young of the First
National Bank spent one or two days last
week at the Dixon Crucible mines in Ticon-
deroga.
The front of fire engine house No 8, on
Duncan and Bergen avenues, presents
splurgs appearance with its tastefully ar
ranged decorations of flowers in bright red
boxes. They were the gift, to the boys, of
Assemblyman John Pearson, and came
from his extensive floral nursery on Storm
avenue.
They say the flavor of stable is healthy,
and Harvey Marsh's rosy health proves it.
But then it is not every body that can sit
in a palace of ne and breathe the ttmos-
phere of stable as Mr.. Marsh does. The
Adams Express stables, of which he is
superintendent, is one of the most attrac-
tive buildings in the city.
The small boy will havs no chance at the
ferry boxes on the other side of the river
hereafter. The ticket box has heretofore
been SO high up that the little chaps heads
could not be seen by the ticket takers.
The ticket boxes are being lowered now SO
that every head that goes through can be
easily detected.
It is likely that petition will soon be
put in circulation asking that the tumble
down re okeries that serve as business places
on the North side of Newark avenue, near
Henderson street, be condemned by the
CITY authorities. 1t is said that the insur-
ance companies have, because of the char
acter and danger of the buildings, refused
to insure them. Mr.. Zabinski had his
Bee Hive insured at the enormous rate of
per cent, but the companies have can
celed his policies.
The Majah! yclept Zebina Koskoo Pang-
born, having reformed the liquor dealers
ont of this town with such magnificent
success, has gone to Newark to continue
his missionary labors. Tie other evening
he was one of the orators at the annual
meeting of the Law and Order League in
that city. Little Pangys little TRADE
doesn't seem to have created any discus
sion; but the address made by Hon. Thorn
as N. McCarter the same evening wss
singer that has aroused the echoes all
through that community.
aWas the abolition of the Somerville
Revenue Collection District stroke of
McPhersons?' said a conspicuous New
Jersey politician. repeating the question of
a SUNDAY NEWS man the other day. 81
think not Mcpherson, if he is candidate
for reelection, could not have done more
unwise thing. 1t will sacrifice his active
support in the Assembly and Senatorial
contests in that vicinity year from next
fall. He could have prevented its abolition
if he had chosen. That he did lot is one
If the proofs that he is not a candidate fo-
reelection to the Senate.
Adrian Hit, the author of the Grant
poem. which is quite as little known as he
IS. started to walk $50 miles at the Oak
land Rink last Monday morning. He
dreamed that he had put up $4,000
against S45, 900, and that his walk was to
be rewarded with handsome Doodle. A
fall on the first day of his performance
spoiled the illusion by putting him hors
du combat for the rest of the week. Adrian
Hit is carpenter. and of the same order
of local poets with our honored friend, Mr..
John P. DAILY. The poetical object of both
seems to be to cover as much paper with
as much meaningless scribbling as posi-
HE.
ar. James ]. Estabrook will not be one
of the contributors to the Mcclellan Mon
ument Fund He cherishes a personal
luminosity against the memory of the dead
hero. Cause WHY? Well, Mr.. Estabrook
Is an old Mexican veteran and served in
the company of which Mcclellan was then
a Lieutenant. When his old Lieutenant
became Governor of New Jersey, Mr..
Estabrook had the audacity to ask him for
a little position. The Governor-General
agreed to meet him the next morning after
Estabrook had seen him, and arrange
things. Two hours before the time ap-
pointed for the meeting the General left
Trenton, and the interview was never held.
The Presidential order merging the Third
United States Revenue Collection District
INTO the Fifth, makes the Newark CSllec-
ton District the secondlargest in the coun-
try. The First is one OF the Chicago Col
lection districts, where the government re-
seipts run from $4,000 900 to $4,000, 900.
The Newark District comprises the bureau
n the City Post Office, over which Deputy
Collector Kelly presides. and more than
81, 600, 600 of the So, 100000 or more turned
u to the Government by Collector Klotz, is
handed over to Mr.. Klotz by Mr. Kelly.
There used to be five collection districts
N the State After the order closing the
Somerville Office goes into effect on July
|, there will be but two. Collector Fer
rell presides over the other.
The automatic weighing machines which
ire stationed at various points in the city
IRE probably the best paying invention
that has been gotten up lately. They are
generally placed in well patronized
Lhorou yhfares There is one OF Taylor's
Hotel. and another has recently been
placed In the Pennsylvania ferry house
across the river. If you step on to be
weighed, they wont work until you drop
nickel through the slot up near the dial
The moment you letthe nickel fall through
the big finger turns around till your avoir-
dupois is indicated. They won't work
without pay, and need no collector to take
the money. Every week an agent of the
company that owns them calls, unlocks
the little box into which the nIckels fall.
and takes out the safely stored earnings
for the week.
A child in Newark was run over by BIZ
cycle the other day, and is now lying at
the point of death. The bicycle may be
thing of beauty to those who look at it and
a inv forever to those who ride IT. Init IL il